With more than 400,000 Australians returning home in 2020 due to COVID – there has been a heightened media focus on the plight of Australians adapting to life back home personally and professionally. We can sometimes forget that many of these professionals are coming home with kids – some of whom may have Australian citizenship but […]
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For Mandy, the decision to move to the Hague with her family was a case of taking an opportunity to walk in the shoes of the people she had spent her career advising.
Some people collect snow domes from countries they visit, Glen and his wife collected children. Their stints as an expat couple in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore all symbolically marked with the birth of kids – and doubly celebrated in Hong Kong with the arrival of twins.
Rugby boots and guitars – these are Ben Deguara’s secret weapons for integrating into a new life overseas. And he should know – he has done it twice already at opposite ends of the world.
There is no doubt that 2020 has shone a light on repatriation for both organisations and individuals alike. With over 400 000 Aussies returning throughout the year, many are heading home with their employer and actively looking for ways to leverage their international knowledge, skills and relationships. For many expats the lure of an overseas
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For those who have listened to our new podcast, Boomeranging: From Expat to Repat, you may have noticed an emerging theme amongst our guests. That being, how many repats have found their place back in Australia’s start up community. Be it starting their own business or in entrepreneurial rapid high growth ventures. This is either
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“I had many ‘woe is me moments’ and my identity took a hit. For a while I didn’t know who I was without the autocue and bouffant hair!” Nicole and her hotelier husband James, moved to Hong Kong in 2010 when an opportunity came up for him with the W Hotel. Having successfully built her
In my latest podcast I talk to Jane Holman who after a five-year senior HR career in New York was told by an Australian recruiter that her overseas experience was not relevant. Not only that, it was a deterrent to future employers. This was despite Jane having a lengthy career in Australia before she left and
Aussie repats share stories of ‘reverse culture shock’ and lost careers in new podcast series As a reported 400,000 Australian expats come home or prepare to as a result of COVID-19, a group of repats are warning of the impact of ‘reverse culture shock’ and of the local rejection of their international experience. ‘Boomeranging –
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Bryce was at the end of a two-year working visa in the UK working for SkyNews when he decided he wasn’t quite ready to come home. He was working for the entertainment desk and one day when habitually swapping his copy of “Heat” magazine for the finance desk’s copy of the “Economist” he stumbled on a job ad for a role that “no one ever gets”. He applied anyway, took a sick day and a Eurostar to Paris and the next ten years, as they say, are history.
